Hello,

Am 01.02.2018 um 12:37 schrieb Michael Tremer:

> Hi,
> 
> nothing of that sounds too bad - except that it sounds a bit extortionate for
> just some syslogging.
> 
> Maybe it is worth trying it if can be built without json at least.

Have tried yesterday for fast checkout if it builds but the compilation quits causing a non existing libfastjson. Also the Rsyslog documentation points json-c as a requirement --> http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/master/installation/install_from_source.html#build-requirements out, not sure if can get around it . Some of the other listed libs at the bottom might not be a requirement but possibly a nice one to have even the logs should be send to a remote log server.
Rsyslog do provides really a lot of extensions which might be worth for a look over...

> 
> However, since we are on the topic of logging reliably, it might be interesting
> to have support for SSL in there.

This should be no problem i think. Rsyslog can be linked against libgcrypt, GnuTLS and OpenSSL. A build is currently running on a openssl-11 basis whereby i think OpenSSL should be preferred ?

> 
> Have you tried if the old configuration file works or does it come with a new
> configuration file format?

The new version 8.32 is in building process will check this if it is ready. On my first tries with Rsyslog which is no also 1+ year ago, i needed to make two changes on syslog.conf --> https://forum.ipfire.org/viewtopic.php?t=16669#p98481 and after that i renamed it to rsyslog.conf and everything worked just fine.

> 
> Best,
> -Michael
> 
> On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 09:41 +0100, ummeegge wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Am 31.01.2018 um 17:35 schrieb Michael Tremer:
>> 
>>> I wouldn't mind changing to rsyslog, but would this be just a drop-in
>>> replacement or cause some serious work?
>> 
>> longer time ago i have integrated Rsyslog into IPFire --> https://forum.ipfire
>> .org/viewtopic.php?t=16669 which was not that difficult but there was the need
>> for some new packages. As far as i remember i worked there with
>> 
>> libtasn1
>> libestr
>> json-c
>> liblogging
>> libfastjson
>> librelp
>> 
>> as a beneath info.
>> 
>>> 
>>> -Michael
>> 
>> 
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> Erik